Isn't there someone kind enough to come strangle me in my sleep?
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People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor.
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He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.
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He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands.
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Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!
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I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy beyond measure.
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As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.
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Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box.
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Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.
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ერთი წამით სიკვდილის ლანდი ჩამოემხო ბერიკაცს,ეს სიკვდილი არც ბოროტებას უქადდა,არც რაღაც ისეთს,ადრე თავზარს რომ სცემდა ხოლმე.არყოფნის შეგრძნება ამ სათლში არეკლილ ნათელ ცასავით ჩუმი,სასურველი და უშფოთველი იყო,.ო,რა ნეტარი ლტოლვით ეწადა განდგომა ამ მშფოთვარე ყოფნის ცოდვებს,სატანჯველს და სიკვდილის ჩრდილქვეშ მინებებოდა ძილს,იმ უსიზმრო ძილს,მხოლოდ უცოდველ ბავშვებს რომ ეწვევათ ხოლმე.ცხოვრებამ ქანცი გაულია.უფრო სწორად,ამ მრავალ ათწლეულში მოყოლებულმა ხელოვნებით ტანჯვამ დაუწრიტა უკანასკნელი ძალა და ღონე..
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